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Episodes · 12 months
15
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 1 of 3,584, 2 of 3,862, 1 of 4,115, 5 of 4,226, 0 of 4,731, 2 of 4,438, 2 of 4,230, 0 of 4,319, 2 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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44
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On record
38
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Where they standLast discussed
3mo ago
Jul 29, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 3Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp24 people
54%
38%
8%
- Statistical likelihood of life13 people · 54%
- Documented extraterrestrial presence9 people · 38%
- Skepticism of alien visitation2 people · 8%
Statistical likelihood of life
The vast number of stars and planets makes the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life a statistical near-certainty.
13 people · 11 episodes
The vast scale, age, and chemical composition of the universe make the existence of intelligent life highly probable.
“I don't see why they wouldn't be given the size of the universe and the age in the universe and the ingredients of the universe.”
The Diary of a CEO · Jul 2026 · 13 episodes · 17.4M views on this topic
Extraterrestrial life almost certainly exists given the number of stars and planets in the galaxy, but contact is difficult due to the vast distances involved.
“The Milky Way galaxy, our backyard, has 100 billion stars. And the probability of life existing among those stars is almost 100%. The question is can they reach us? That means is it possible to create a space warp such that you can break the light barrier so that you can travel across the galaxy and”
The Diary of a CEO · May 2026 · 1 episode · 7.2M views on this topicAF
Unless nature is biased against the development of intelligence, human civilization is not the first instance of technological civilization in the history of the universe.
“if it's anywhere larger than that then they're we're not the first it's happened somewhere else and to me that was an an that was mindblowing doesn't tell me there's anybody nearby the Galaxy could be sterile it just told me that like you know unless Nature's really against has some bias against civ”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2024 · 1 episode · 2.8M views on this topicDocumented extraterrestrial presence
Extraterrestrials are currently visiting or monitoring Earth and have historically interacted with human civilization.
9 people · 9 episodes
Extraterrestrials have visited Earth for eons and have influenced human development and ancient technologies.
“I believe that there are UFOs visiting Earth from outside of this planet that the ancient tablets talk about this over eons”
Shawn Ryan Show · Jan 2024 · 1 episode · 2.6M views on this topicDA
Humanity will be officially introduced to extraterrestrials in 2027.
“In 2027, we will be introduced literally to extraterrestrials.”
Dr. Mayim Bialik · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 2.5M views on this topic
Extraterrestrial life exists, is non-confrontational, and holds greater competence and intelligence than humanity.
“My experience of alien life, they never confrontational. I've had very strong interactions with them. Definitely they're smarter than us.”
Sadhguru · Oct 2025 · 1 episode · 1.1M views on this topicSkepticism of alien visitation
There is currently no empirical scientific evidence to support the claim that extraterrestrial life has visited or interacted with Earth.
2 people · 2 episodes
Austin expresses skepticism regarding the credibility of John Edmonds' alien encounter stories.
“I think you can kind of uh start to see there's some inconsistencies with his stories.”
Mile Higher · Nov 2023 · 1 episode · 178K views on this topic
Brian Keating believes that the existence of life on other planets is unlikely given the lack of scientific evidence for it.
“I'm kind of an outlier so just everyone should you know look to the actual experts in this field but I have some rigorous you know kind of logical arguments that I believe the probability of Li I would never say it's zero but I think it's very low”
Huberman Lab · Jan 2025 · 1 episode · 176K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
In the transcripts
Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Jul 2017